POLICE responded to reports of a man walking the streets of Darwen on a Sunday morning brandishing a baseball bat, a court was told.
Blackburn magistrates heard that Steven John Albert was seen outside a house in Lilac Grove and the bat was found in the garden of the same house.
He latter admitted he was looking for a man who had assaulted him in Darwen Conservative club the night before.
Albert, 29, of Ashton Road, Darwen, pleaded guilty to possessing an offensive weapon in a public place.
He was given a conditional discharge for 12 months and ordered to pay £50 costs.
Tom Snape, prosecuting, said Albert was first reported in Ashton Road at 11.20 am carrying a baseball bat.
He was then seen in Ratcliffe Street before police caught up with him in Lilac Grove.
When interviewed he said he had been assaulted by a man called John in the toilets of the Conservative club the previous night.
The following morning, he had gone looking for him.
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